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We are getting answers about why evidence in the criminal case against Cañon City Council Member Michael Katchmar never made it to trial.
Katchmar and Thomas Lockhart were arrested and charged with assaulting an elderly couple at a downtown wine tasting that took place in May 2013.
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A verdict has been reached in the case against an Iraqi national accused in connection with what Colorado Springs police call a brutal rape case. Yasir Jabbar Jasim, 21, was found guilty on two misdemeanor counts of false reporting and not guilty on three of four counts of accessory to...

After a second trial, Joshua Carrier was found guilty on multiple counts of sexually assaulting young boys while working as a school resource officer and wrestling coach at Horace Mann Middle School in Colorado Springs. A jury found him guilty of sexually assaulting 19 of the 21 boys who brought...

SAN ANGELO, Texas (AP) - A Texas jury has convicted polygamist leader Warren Jeffs on child sexual assault charges in a case stemming from two young followers he took as brides in what his church calls "spiritual marriages."
The 55-year-old head of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of...

An El Paso County jury has found 19-year-old Logan McClelland guilty of reckless manslaughter in the death of 50 -year-old Bradley Blehm last August.
Blehm was an employee at the Big O Tires store, on Highway 105 in Monument, who had been drinking and ordered to go home for...

A Fort Carson Spokesperson tells News First 5 that a military court has handed down a sentence today following a guilty verdict of two counts of involuntary manslaughter, one count of reckless endangerment and one count of assault late Saturday afternoon.
After deliberations began early Sunday around 9:00am the...

It's been two years since two Colorado Springs teens were gunned down, in a fight that was said to be over an iPod. On Friday, 21-year-old Juan Vasquez was found guilty of two counts of second degree murder.
17-year-old Luis Burciaga and 18-year-old Uriel Rascon were each shot in...

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - Elizabeth Smart and her mother exchanged a smile as the court clerk announced the jury's decision: the man who kidnapped and raped her eight years ago was guilty.
Brian David Mitchell could face up to life in prison when he is sentenced.
He...

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - A federal jury has convicted a former street preacher of kidnapping Elizabeth Smart more than eight years ago.
The verdict reached Friday finally brought justice for Smart and her family after the ordeal that began when Brian David Mitchell took her from her home...

A 19-year old Pueblo man is headed to prison for the shooting death of another teen. On Thursday, Lorenzo Oscar Gonzalez has been convicted of first degree murder and five counts of attempted murder. The murder charge comes with a mandatory life sentence. The shooting happened on E. 5fth St.,...

A woman accused of offering an undercover officer $2,000 to kill her ex-husband in Pitkin County has been acquitted.
Jefferson County jurors acquitted Elinor Dvir on Thursday of solicitation of first-degree murder and solicitation of first-degree assault of her former husband, Pitkin County Deputy District Attorney Richard Nedlin. The...

A Colorado Springs jury has found a teen-aged homeless man guilty of murder in the beating death of another homeless man. The verdict came Tuesday afternoon after the jury deliberated just two hours.
"I don't I've ever had a homicide trial come back so quickly, but I think evidence...

A man who says he killed prominent Kansas abortion provider Dr. George Tiller to protect unborn children has been convicted of murdering the doctor.
A jury deliberated for 37 minutes Friday before finding Scott Roeder guilty of premeditated, first-degree murder. The 51-year-old Kansas City, Mo., man faces a mandatory...

A Colorado Springs man who walked out of court Tuesday as a jury was deliberating his fate has been arrested. Theodore "Theo" William Griffin III was free on bond when he left the court before the jury found him guilty of three counts of Sexual Assault on a Child.
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Jomar Falu-Vives was found guilty of two counts of first degree murder Wednesday in the shocking deaths of two young people gunned down while posting garage sale signs in Colorado Springs.
Jurors returned the verdicts late Wednesday afternoon. Falu-Vives was a Fort Carson soldier and Iraq War veteran when...

A love-triangle that turned into a murder-for-insurance scheme ended with a guilty verdict Thursday morning. A jury in Canon City found Andrew Tanner guilty of nine charges, including first degree murder in the 2008 shooting death of Jim Durgan. Tanner will be automatically sentenced to life in prison without the...